TATE EXCHANGE
A space for everyone to collaborate, test ideas and discover new perspectives on life, through art.
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Thomas Tallis School is proud to be one of the Tate Exchange Founding Associates. The new Switch House at Tate Modern devotes a whole floor to a new experiment in audience engagement called Tate Exchange. As an Associate, we are responsible for planning and delivering 2 projects in this space, reflecting our commitment to learning through art. Over recent years we have developed a close relationship with colleagues at Tate which has had a direct impact on the quality of art education we can offer our students. Our Tate Exchange projects will help us further refine our thinking about art education and give us an opportunity to share what we have learned with a range of visitors, including members of the public. The theme of last year's programming was, not surprisingly, 'Exchange'. This year it's 'Production'. We will be directly involved in Tate Exchange for three years. |
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Our collaboration with St. Peter's School in Bournemouth, under the PhotoPedagogy banner, continued this year with a two day professional Development event for photography teachers during the Spring half term.
We began with a relatively simple question: How might we create a photography classroom over two days at Tate? Following feedback from colleagues in response to this blog post, we designed a CPD event over two days at Tate Exchange. We were delighted to welcome our class of photography teacher colleagues to Tate in February to experience a combination of practical activities, artist-led workshops, expert input from Tate curators, The Photographers’ Gallery and Autograph ABP and plenty of time to share our thoughts about teaching photography.
Members of the public were invited to drop in to the space from 12 noon each day to encounter continued professional development in action as the focus between student, teacher and artist was playfully blurred and a photography classroom was exposed like never before. They could observe teachers debating the important issues in photography, developing their own practice and collaborating on the production of new ideas, all the while embracing a spirit of experimentation and play. Visitors could take on the role of classroom observers and were be invited to provide some feedback about what they had seen.
You can read our write-up of the two days here and take a look at a digital version of edition #3 of our newspaper (given out free on the day). Thank you to all our workshop leaders for their expertise and generosity, to the team at Tate Exchange, to Simon Baker at Tate for his encouragement and support, to our amazingly talented student helpers, to our wonderful colleagues who took part in our experiment over the two days, to all those who contributed words and images to our newspaper and to WEX Photographic for their sponsorship.
Interested in our 2016-17 project? Read more...
Members of the public were invited to drop in to the space from 12 noon each day to encounter continued professional development in action as the focus between student, teacher and artist was playfully blurred and a photography classroom was exposed like never before. They could observe teachers debating the important issues in photography, developing their own practice and collaborating on the production of new ideas, all the while embracing a spirit of experimentation and play. Visitors could take on the role of classroom observers and were be invited to provide some feedback about what they had seen.
You can read our write-up of the two days here and take a look at a digital version of edition #3 of our newspaper (given out free on the day). Thank you to all our workshop leaders for their expertise and generosity, to the team at Tate Exchange, to Simon Baker at Tate for his encouragement and support, to our amazingly talented student helpers, to our wonderful colleagues who took part in our experiment over the two days, to all those who contributed words and images to our newspaper and to WEX Photographic for their sponsorship.
Interested in our 2016-17 project? Read more...
Where are we? Why are we here? Where are we going?
In 2016-17 we established a new gallery, the Thomas Tallis Centre for Contemporary Art, on the back field. We worked with students and colleagues in the Support Centre for Autism and Speech and Language Impairment (SCALI). We were interested in the way that working and behaving like a contemporary artist could have a positive impact on students' communication skills, habits of mind and sense of belonging. You can find out more about our 2016-17 project here.
Our plans for 2017-18 were built on the idea of communication. How does an art gallery inform its visitors about what is on offer? How does a school do the same? There are currently two phases to our project:
- Exploring a variety of contemporary art strategies for mapping the school building and, ultimately, Tate Modern itself.
- Developing a sensory garden adjacent to the Centre for Contemporary Art with the help of a range of community partners.
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To find out more about Thomas Tallis School's involvement in Tate Exchange, contact Jon Nicholls, Director of Arts & Creativity.